Re: Upgrade debacle....

[Charlie <ariestao@ipstarmail.com.au>]

On Sat, 3 May 2014 02:02:49 -0400 Tom H sent:

> On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 1:33 AM, Charlie <ariestao@ipstarmail.com.au>
> wrote:
> > On Sat, 3 May 2014 01:12:23 -0400 Tom H sent:
> >
> >> And the message:
> >> Try running the command
> >>   gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders >
> >> /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache
> >> to make things work again for the time being.
> >
> > That's what I did:
> >
> > gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache
> 
> For x86_32:
> /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders >
> /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache
> 
> For x86_64:
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders >
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache

Firstly purged: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev

Then removed:
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache

and replaced it with a loaders.cache empty file in that directory as
was the case when I hit the wall.

Rebooted and discovered that my system wasn't quite as damaged as it
was in the first instance. Claws-mail actually worked gkrellm wasn't
there and couldn't be brought up though as previously and icons had a
red "x" in a black outline as previously.

I then ran as root:

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache

And rebooted.

The loaders.cache file was 4573, is that bytes? Whereas the former on
was 4572 bytes or whatever it is.

So it worked a treat, and thank you Tom, you allowed me to get rid of a
lot of "dev stuff" I didn't need on my system.

However, I am still grateful to Ralf, as he got me up and running
quickly and my system was almost but not quite a basket case when he
did that.

Thanks again to you both,
Charlie
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